Word: crater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reproduce them by the highly unlikely process of stealing suitable bodies from the morgue and embalming them in tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that the corpse of Justice Joseph Force Crater (who disappeared in Manhattan in 1930) is now a rouged mummy in an exhibition. Just when you expect to learn more about how the proprietor of the wax works conducts his business, the picture ends-because the proprietor falls into a puddle of his own wax and because the girl...
...collector of notes on subjects that have diversity-such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from...
...called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater in Arizona they have not been successful...
Eruption. Only volcano in the continental U. S. is Mount Lassen, Calif. Its last real eruption occurred in 1914. But last week its crater was stuffed with smoke bombs, pyrotechnics and red fire which were set off before a large throng to simulate another eruption and mark the dedication of Lassen National Park. Chief speaker: Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur...
...Battle of the Bowl, more points will be scored in the Colossal Crater of Connecticut tomorrow than Harvard has scored in the last five games* The majority of these points will find their way into the Crimson scoring column, but the margin of Havard's victory will not exceed three points...